While I do admire the Founders of this Nation, I don't worship them as some do.
At the end of the day, they were Men. With all that entails, good and bad. They changed the world in a way we still don't appreciate, to be sure.
But they were Men, with feet of clay, just like any one of us.
Jefferson wanted a lot of stuff in the Constitution and Declaration of Independence that didn't make it into the final versions. Too bad they didn't, but practicality and politics said they couldn't.
I am so sick of this one. What "lies" are these people referring to?
I suspect he ignores what his God says about homos, those who murder the innocents, and anything remotely sounding like that classic rightwing religious bludgeon, 'sin'.
I actually met someone (a self professed Liberal)who, after 9-11, said he didn't care if a plane crashed into the Whitehouse "because George Washington had slaves". Unbelivable!
when psychos babble.......
That's kind of not true. The Constitution specifically set aside any discussion of slavery for a period of 20 years, the Framers knowing that slavery was the one issue that would kill the Republic before it had any chance to live. If any specific anti-slave-trade or anti-slavery had found its way into the Constitution, it would not have been ratified in the South. And when Philadelphia Quakers, led by Franklin in the last years of his life, tried to get the new Congress to debate the issue of slavery specifically, a deal was brokered to more or less "table" the issue for another day.
It took a real, live shooting war to decide the slavery issue. The Constitution, as written by the Framers, was purposefully silent on the issue.
The problem with "debunking" the Founders is that it leads one to fail to apprehend the very high standard of political genius that went into designing and implementing a form of government unique in the world at the time and still very unlike any other. One need not swing from extreme to extreme in regard to these gentlemen - they certainly weren't saints but that does not mean that they were "criminals." Most of the signators of the Declaration of Independence paid dearly in their personal lives for the temerity of defying the King, with us as the beneficiaries. If some pinheaded liberal crybaby wants to miscategorize them it's only because he miscategorizes everything else.
"Well I am sooooo glad that my God says that the meek shall inhabit the earth"
Yeah. He DID say that. But he didn't say anything about what the stupid would get, unfortunately for the letter writter.
Apparently this genious is unfamiliar with the Clinton body count.
feminist "theory" is based upon the frankfort school and lacan.
both reject the enlightenment.
our constitution is an enlightenment document.
Some of the founding fathers were not so great -- namely, Tom Paine, Benedict Arnold, if you consider them such. And Andrew Jackson is totally undeserving to be on the $20 bill, although he's not really a founding father.